Cartridge-reloading implement



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H. FUERMANN.

CARTRIDGE RELOADING IMPLEMENT.

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H. FUERMANN.

CARTRIDGE RELOADING IMPLEMENT.

No. 397,421, Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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HENRY FUERMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CARTRlDGE-RELOADING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,421, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed November 13, 1888. Serial No. 290,742. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it kllOWll that I, HENRY FUERMANN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, h ave in vented certain new and useful Improvements inCartridge-Reloading Machines, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relatesto machines or implements for accomplishing allthe several manipulations for reloading cartridges with either conicalor-spherical bullets; and it has for its object to provide such amachine or implement that in a compact form can be readily adjusted forany one of the operations to be performed, and which has but a singleoperating-lever; and with these objects in view my invention consists ofthe novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described andspecifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represent a vertical section ofthe machine as prepared for removing the exploded cap; Fig. 2, a similarsection of the machine while seating a new cap; Fig. 3, a similarsection of same as adjusted for expanding the mouth of thecartridge-shell; Fig. 4, a similar section as compressing the reloadedcartridge and contracting the shell upon the conical bullet; Fig. 5, asimilar section as compressing the reloaded cartridge and contractingthe shell upon the spherical bullet. Fig. 6 is a sectional plan on linecc .r in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is an elevation of the machine as extractingthe cartridge after reloading.

Corresponding referential characters in the several figures of thedrawings designate like parts.

The frame A of this machine consists of a standard, 1, which to one sidehas connected a vertical tube, 2, bored larger from the bottom to theshoulder 3, and bored just sufficiently large in its upper portion for acartridge-shell to be inserted therein. This frame has a base-flange, a,provided with countersunk holes for securing the same by woodscrews upona bench or table. It also has a flange, 5, on the side opposite to thetube 2, having bored therein a hole of same diameter as the upper end ofsuch tube Centrally between the bore of tube 2 and flange 5 the frame isprovided with a vertically-projecting eye-lug, 6, forming a hinge withthe slotted and eyed endof a lever, B, to swing in either direction, andthus to operate in connection with either the tube 2 or flange 5.

Into the larger bore of the tube 2 is fitted to slide vertically thereina tube, 7, which is exteriorly screw-threaded and has a longitudinalgroove engaging with the point of a pin or screw, 8, tapped through thewall of the tube 2, for keeping such tube 7 from turning. A nut, 9,engaging the screw-threads of the tube 7 is inserted into a horizontalslot cut through the tubular portion 2 of the frame A for verticallyadjusting such tube 7 by turning such nut in one direction or the other.The upper end of the tube 7 is interiorly chamfered or reamed out tohave a flaring opening.

-A screw-threaded stem, 10, of a diameter snugly to pass through thetube 7, has ahead, 11, fitting the bore of the lowerportion of the tube2 of the frame A. This screw-threaded stem 10 is also longitudinallygrooved to engage the point of a screw, 12, tapped through the wall ofthe tube 2 of the frame A to keep the said stem from turning, and a nut,13, engaging the screw-threads of the stem 10, is inserted into a slotcut through the tubular portion 2 of the frame A a distance below theslot for the nut 9. The rims of both nuts 9 and 13 project outside ofthe tube 2 of the frame A, and are serrated for turning them with thefingers. The stem 10 is concaved on top to provide a seat for either aconical or spherical bullet.

The lever B is chambered at one side for a hook, 14, the fulcrum ofwhich is toward the handle of the lever B, while its outwardlycurvedhook end is toward the hinge-connection of such lever B to catch underthe projecting flange 15 of the head of a cartridgeshell, 16. This hook14 is pushed outward by a small spiral spring, 17, inserted into asocket behind such hook, and its outward movement is limited by the heelof its pivot-hub. The side of the lever B opposite to where the hook 14is attached has secured into a socket a round concaved die, 18, which byswinging the lever upon flange 5 will be moved centrally above the eyetherein, and is used for seating and securing the percussion-primer 19into the central cavity in the head of car.- tridge-shell 16, as shownby Fig. 2.

For removing an exploded primer from a cartridge-shell a cylindricalplug, 20, of a diameter to enter the cartridge-shell 16, and having aproj ectingpin, 21, is inserted into the tubular portion 2 of the frameAto rest upon the screw-stem 10, which is to be so adjusted that only thepin 21 projects above tube 2. A cartridge-shell being placed upon thisplug 20 and then the lever B being swung upon it, the pin 21 will pushthe primer out and into the cavity of the hook 14 and permit it to dropout on lifting the lever B, the hook 14E of which at the same timeraises the cartridgeshell out of the tube. For expanding the end of thecartridge-shell 16 to admit the bullet a plug, 22, is seated into thetube 2 to rest upon screw-stem 10. This plug 22 has a conical head whichenters the mouth of the cartridge-shell, and on pushing such shelldownward by lever 13 its end .will be expanded to the desired degree towhich it can be adjusted.

By arranging the plug 20 with a conical collar at proper distance theoperation of removing the cap and of expanding the shell of thecartridgemay be accomplished simultaneously with one operation. v

The operation for reloading cartridges is, first, to remove the oldprimers in the manner shown by Fig. 1; secondly, to expand the mouth ofthe shell, as shown by Fig. 3; third, to insert a new primer, as shownby Fig. and then, after recharging the cartridge-shell with powder andinserting the bullet, the cartridge is properly compressed and themouthedge of the shell is contracted upon the bullet by being pushedinto the flaring upper end of the tube 7, as shown by Figs. 4: and 5.After each operation performed upon the shell or cartridge, exceptingthe one of inserting the cap, the hook 14, automatically engaging theflange 15, will extract the shell or cartridge on raising the lever 13again.

What I claim is c 1. A cartridge-reloading machine consisting of astandard tubular frame bored for a bullet-supporting stem and for acartridgeshell-contracting tube surrounding the supporting-stem, bothvertically adjustable inshell-contractiug tube surrounding the sup--porting-stem, and of an eyed flange to one side of such standard frameto hold a cartridge-shell for seating the primer, in combination with alever pivotally connected with the standard frame centrally between thetube and eye flange thereof, and provided at one side with acartridge-extracting hook and on its other side with a concaved die forseats ing the primer, all substantially as set forth, to operate asspecified.

A cartridge-reloading machine consisting of a standard tubular framebored for a bullet-supporting stem and for a cartridgeshell-contractingtube surrounding the supporting-stem, both vertically adjustable in thetubular frame by separate screw-nuts, and of a lever pivoted to suchstandard frame and provided with a cartridge extracting hook, incombination with a plug to be seated in such tube to rest upon suchbulletsupporting stem and entering the cartridge-shell and provided witha projecting pin for displacing the exploded primer, all substantiallyas described, to operate as specified.

4. A cartridge-reloading machine consisting of a standard tubular framebored for a bullet-supporting stem, vertically adjustable in the tubularframe by a screw-nut, and of a lever pivoted to such standard frame andprovided with a cartridge-extracting hook,in combination with a conicalplug to be seated in such standard tube upon such bullet-supporting stemfor expanding the cartridgeshell previouslyto reloading the same, allsubstantially as set forth, to operate as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. HENRY FUERMANN. lVitnesses:

\VILLIAM II. Lorz, Qr'ro LUBKERT.

